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MUUKOKU MAIL TUIUL'.NE, MEDI'OKI), OKEtiON ILl'.MUV. SEPTEMBER 24, Attitude of States On Integration Big Job for Historian By AL KUETT.NER L'PI Correspondent When the final history of the racial revolution in the United States is written, an improtant point to be analyzed will be the reaction of the various states to the advent of integration. To be explained will be the paradox of Arkansas where vi olence erupted in Little Rock years after desegregation had come to other sections. There will be the almost overnight top pling of Virginia's "massive re sistance," the neat peaceful crumbling of Georgia's tough wall of segregation, and the pockets of extreme resistence in North Carolina, a state that moved early generally into an attitude of acceptance. But historians will have one of their most complicated jobs explaining the difference in at titudes between South Carolina and states like Alabama and Mississippi. At present, respon sible leaders in South Carolina don't like to make comparisons for fear of "pointing the finger" at two neighboring sister states which are going through criti cal days. "I suppose in a general way, it is the decency of the people of South Carolina and a willing ness to go along with some things they plain don't like," said a leading segregationist ed itor of the state. Then he added: "I guess it was Fritz Hollings who led the way." Ernest F. Hollings, whose silver tongued oratory had the sibilance of the South Carolina low country, was governor while his state moved to the thresh hold of integration. He had been one of the South's toughest pro ponents of resistance to the 1954 mandate of the Supreme Court's school decision. As a state's righter, he had few peers and many wondered where he would lead South Carolina when Ne groes turned up for admission to white schools. The integration die was cast in South Carolina in the waning months of Hollings' term as gov ernor when it became obvious that a Negro, Harvey Gantt, was headed for admission to Clem son college. In his closing address to the legislature of 1961, Hollings bold ly initiated the policy that be came South Carolina's o f f i cial stand on integration. He said theirs was a state of law and order and that violence could never be tolerated as a substi tute for law. Hollings' decision could have resulted in part from his close friendship with then Gov. Er nest Vandiver of Georgia. Vio lence had erupted at the Uni versity of Georgia when two Ne groes were admitted, and Van diver had asked the legislature to repeal all segregation laws. Hollings was succeeded by a former president of the Univer sity of South Carolina, Donald Russell, who presided over the Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. peaceful integration of Clemson and desegregation of Charleston public schools. Another significant figure was James F. Byrnes, the former governor and U.S.secretary of state who was one of the most militant spokesmen for segrega tion in the nation a few years back. Byrnes has been almost silent. His strongest statement lately has been that Gantt would not be welcome at Clemson. Signif icantly, Byrnes was a prime mover in getting Russell elect ed. This, too, was a key to the South Carolina policy, the state had embarked in the Hollings era on a program of climbing the economic ladder. Industry was spreading fast in the cotton and peanut fields. Business sim-1 ilv was not in favor of turmoil I move does not moan wholesale that would upset the program. ; acceptance of integration. When This was communicated to the ' Byrnes was governor in the governor. 1 1950s, he put across a bill abol- Take Other Approach ! ishing the compulsory school Alabama and Mississippi, so act. Russell has not tried to get far, have taken a different ap-, it restored, although the prob proach. Top leadership of the j lem of school dropouts is his two slates has dug in for all- major administrative program, out resistance or a retreat j In Charleston, where 11 Ne trench by trench. groes desegregated white South Carolina's peaceful : schools this month, parents L.A. POPULATION IP LOS ANGELES (UPI est figures from the city plan-j SYRACUSE, N. Y. (UPD ning director's office today plac- j Former Vice President Richard n LaJ Nixon Warns on Overselling Treaty ed the City of Los Angeles' pop ulation at a record 2,6.'U,000 an increase of 152,405 over the 19(i0 census. have organized a private school program. It will be financed partly by state tuition grants, a project backed in the legisla ture by the governor. M. Nixon, in what was viewed as a major policy speech, warned Monday night against the "over-selling" of the recent ly negotiated limited nuclear test ban treaty. The one-t i m e presidential hopeful, who denied any aspira tions for the 1964 nomination, also urged Republicans to unify their liberal and conserva tive factions because he said thn party "can't afford a terribla bloodletting." Nixon predicted the test ban treaty would be "overwhelming ly approved" by the Senate, but cautioned that approval will bn marked by a stepped-up Soviet offensive to extend Communism, without war in the free world. ARE WE HEAD OVER HEELS IN INSTALLMENT DEBT? We are now at the point where 13.6 per cent of every dollar we take home after taxes is committed just to repay our out standine installment debts an all-time high ratio and com paring with a tiny 3.4 per cent at World War IPs end in 1945, onlv 11 Der cent 10 years ago. The 13 per cent level has been tagged as the "magic maxi mum of after-tax dollars which tamuies are ame or wining to earmark for installment debt repayments. For years economists have been saying that when this level is reached we start con centrating on paying off our bins and cutting DacK on spenaing Yet, we're now well through the magic maximum, stiu oorrow ing freely Our installment debts alone in July totaled almost $51 billion, up $500 million in a month, up $5 billion in a year. The rate of rise in our installment debts in the past 12 months has dwarfed the rate of rise in our after-tax personal incomes. Thus, the mounting worry that we're overloading ourselves with installment debts, in addition to what we owe on mortgages and other types of loans. The concern goes far beyond the plight of the family caught in a debt squeeze, for If we are at a danger point and we start curtailing our rat of spending, we'll slap a brake on our entire economy. Are we then crashing the debt barrier? Few responsible experts will answer with an unqualified "No," but most are not worried if certain developments occur. Specifically, the answer is we are not at a danger point if con sumer incomes continue to rise, if consumers have confidence in their jobs and income prospects, if reasonable restraints are maintained over on-the-cuff buying terms. They are big "its," but the belief is that across-the-board lax reduction would resolve the first two "ifs" on the plus side. For the tax cut would leave extra spending dollars in the pockets of taxpayers the nation over and the stumulant to business would keep personal incomes and business profits in a rising trend. As for controls over on-the-cuff buying, both government and self-regulatory bodies in the lending field are now publicly warning against undue relaxation of terms, are closely watching the trends, are comforted by the comparatively low rate of loan delinquencies. A first reassuring point about our installment debt load is that family incomes and savings are at, and persistenly climb ing to, unprecedented peaks laying the basis for healthy con sumer borrowing. Personal incomes in July rose to an annual rate of over SIKI billion, almost S21 billion higher than in mid-summer 1962. In the second quarter of 196.1. net new savings of In dividuals in savings accounts, V. S. savings bonds and life insurance reserves lopped $9 billion, only 6 per cent below the all-time quarterly high hit earlier this year. We're earn ing and saving at phenomenal rales even as we borrow at phenomenal rates, an unusual combination of trends indeed. A second reassuring point is that our backlog of savings is enormous. As of mid-year, our accumulated investments in savings accounts, U. S. savings bonds and life insurance re serves totaled over $388 billion, a backlog which indicates we can properly devote a larger proportion of our incomes to debt repayment. Many families today keep their nesteggs intact and borrow on the installment plan. They would rather pay installment debt charges than empty their savings accounts. A third reassuring point is that as additional millions of families take on installment debts, this is bound to push up the ratio of debt repayment to after-tax income. We'll soon be into the period when the war-born babies will be marrying and, as they borrow to set up homes of their own, the "magic maxi mum" may naturally be pierced. The rore of the matter is maintenance of incomes in a rising trend. Should they even level off, the ability and willing ness of families to continue borrowing to buy would be under mined and the debt picture would darken overnight. The im portance of early passage oi mai u ounon lax reuutuuu um grows by the day. C -fc, rr u n a rr x? -& j:f 7- 8.38-3 O CO 0 ' 001 3 tauius -61-70-83-90) CANCER .. ;Lst33 .-,!9.M-31-41 i.v-'37t3-79-S7 110 L- 67.73-83-83) 3-10-12 2 Your Doi'y Aehvitr Gvf'c According fo the Start. To Wee!op rresioqe W Wednesdov, ir-od wo'cis rorrspooding to nunbes of your Zvci'oc birth vga P 0' llVjf 12 Pf tonal t3Tiay 15 cfgaTi.- 16 'o 21 A-q 30 V n 40 lM.-i ii A-vOr SI V 0 0 WlfTVfl 1 Vr-i S '.'ufcwtaTt'ot -. 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